Abstract We study the dependence of recurrence coefficients in the three-term recurrence relation for orthogonal polynomials with a certain deformation of the q-Laguerre weight on the degree parameter n. We show that this dependence is described by a discrete Painlevé equation on the family of A 5 ( 1 ) Sakai surfaces, but this equation is different from the standard examples of discrete Painlevé equations of this type and instead is a composition of two such. This case study is a good illustration of the effectiveness of a recently proposed geometric identification scheme for discrete Painlevé equations.
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